Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Beyond the spectre of the drunkard

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Account of increasing drink consumption and drunkeness in the period between the 1869 Licencing Act and the imposition of wartime regulations, 1914-18. It shows that there were 'many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkeness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where the consumption held many different meanings'. In three parts: 1] the drinkers; 2] the drinks; 3] drinking in Victorian Britain. Part two deals with production and markets, based on case studies